TENNIS PLAYER

Laurence Doherty

1875 - 1919

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Hugh Laurence Doherty (8 October 1875 – 21 August 1919) was a British tennis player and the younger brother of tennis player Reginald Doherty. He was a six-time Grand Slam champion and a double Olympic Gold medalist at the 1900 Summer Olympics in singles and doubles (also winning a Bronze in mixed doubles). In 1903 he became the first non-American player to win the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurence Doherty has received more than 123,529 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Laurence Doherty is the 98th most popular tennis player (down from 72nd in 2019), the 2,501st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,345th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Tennis Player.

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  • 120k

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  • 51.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Laurence Doherty ranks 98 out of 1,569. Before him are William Larned, Sven Davidson, Helen Wills, Dora Boothby, Beals Wright, and Andy Murray. After him are Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Henner Henkel, Ken McGregor, Kurt Nielsen, Tony Roche, and Michael Chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Laurence Doherty ranks 104. Before him are Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Vladimir Filatov, Archibald Reiss, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, and Felix Hamrin. After him are J. Stuart Blackton, Alexander Goldenweiser, Henri Callot, Kunio Yanagita, Italo Montemezzi, and Leonor Michaelis. Among people deceased in 1919, Laurence Doherty ranks 104. Before him are Victor Segalen, Maryana Marrash, Saovabha Phongsri, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, John Alcock, and Akashi Motojiro. After him are Maria Nikiforova, Aaron Aaronsohn, Victorino de la Plaza, Pavel Chistyakov, Elia Millosevich, and Louis Diémer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Laurence Doherty ranks 2,501 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Peters (1943), André Waterkeyn (1917), Norman Wisdom (1915), Edward Coke (1552), Ian Bannen (1928), and Andy Murray (1987). After him are Hugh Bonneville (1963), James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), Ralph Abercromby (1734), Joanne Whalley (1961), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and Æthelheard of Wessex (750).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among tennis players born in United Kingdom, Laurence Doherty ranks 11. Before him are Margaret Scriven (1912), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), Maud Watson (1864), Evelyn Colyer (1902), Dora Boothby (1881), and Andy Murray (1987). After him are Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Spencer Gore (1850), Arthur Gore (1868), Edith Hannam (1878), John Hartley (1849), and Ernest Renshaw (1861).

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